The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-22
IT'S NOW OR NEVER
IFTHE PEOPLE WANT THE BRIDGE

1FTHE PEOPLE WANT THE BRIDGE
To-Day Is their Last Chance to get it-Judgs
Cochran and Mr.. Lynch presont n Prop.
osition which must DO Accepted or
they Withdraw from tho Matter.
II was twenty minutes after four o'clock
yesterday afternoon when tho special
meeting Of the Board OF County Commits.
alonera called for Q p. NJ. came to order In
response to the rapping OF Prcaident
Gruue'a gayel. All the members were
present but Mr.. McGregor, who had grown
tired waiting till the Bridge Committee
made up It's mind, and lett sometime DO.
fore. The other members not on the CON.
mittee had spent tho afternoon in the
largo room Of the Board while the com.
mlttco .was in aosslon in tho committee
room, with Its counsel, Prosecuting Az
torney Jordan and Mr.. J. D. Ewing, Pres.
idcns Cochran, OF the Wheeling & Harris.
burg Railway Company, his attorney,
Hon. W. P. Hubbard, aud Mr.. WA.
Lynch, OF Canton, Ohio, representing Mr..
Heman CLARK, tho we'll known contractor
and capitalist Of New York. Part OF the
time Mr.. Riley, ono Of MIR. Ewlng'a law
partners, was present. 5S's &,
This committee and the other gentle-
men spent most Of the forenoon, and tho
afternoon up to the time named, in die.
custom with closed doors, and when the
hour Tor the general Board meeting ar
rived and the committee was still at II,
1t became evident that there was little
hope oil an agreement, and 1t was matter
Of common remark that the business could
not have consumed more time with less
results II II had all been considered in
open session Of tho full Board, as the
event proved 1t had to be In tho end at
any rate. ~
THE DISAGREEMENT.
When tho Board came to order Prose-
cuting Attorney Jordan read the ordinance,
the passage Of which waa recommended
10 the Board by the committee. In /.
there we're blanks Tor the date OF the cleo.
ton and the names Of the oniccrs Of cleo.
ton at the different polling places.
Tho election was set for Saturday, Jan.
unry %, 1888. Tho appointment Of judges
and commissioners Of election for the va.
rious polling places being mex. in order,
the Commissioners handed in lists for
their separate districts, which were
adopted. A
1t was ordered that the proposed ordi.
nance be published in the four daily pa.
pers Of Wheeling, and also the WEEKLY
INrELLlaENcER and Register.
The details having been complied with,
consuming three.quartera OF an hour, the
surprising announcement was made that
this proposed ordinance was not accept.
able to the railway company, and it was
Ieuggeated that Judge Cochran might de.
sire to be heard.
Hon. W. P. Hubbard, council for the
railway company, said Judge Cochran had
no amendments to suggest. He had, how.
ever, proposition on behalf Of the com.
pany on which ho desired the fiual action
Of the Board ons way or the other,
Judge Cochran then read draft Of an
ordinance acceptable to the company, in
which, he said, everything had been con.
ceded which these whom he represented
could possibly yield. 7
THE NEW ORDINANCE.
The ordinance, as rssd by Mr.. Jordan,
was identical with the one presented to
the committee at the former meeting, and
printed in the INTELIldgScER Of Decsm.
Der 10, up to q certain point. II reads:
WHEREAS, The Wheeling & Harrisburg
Railway Company Of West Virginia has
requested vote to bs ordered and money
to be appropriated in aid OF the constrrc.
ton Of iss railroad in Ohio county, in.
Guiding q bridge ACROSS the Ohio river at
or near the head Of Wheeling Island, and
tracks thereon and approaches Thereto,
and terminal tracks and facilities thereof
IN the said county, including tunnel
through the hill, and
| WHEREAS. The Board OF Oolumlssion
Of the county Of Ohio deems it desirable
Tor the county 10 appropriate money 10
| aid in the construction of such railroad
bridge scross the Ohio river in said couu.
ty and OF railroad crossing eaid bridge
and the terminal and connecting tracks OF
said railroad in gaid county, said appro-
priation to be made by subscription to the
stock OF said company; therefore it is
hereby : fl7g. 500
Ordered by The Board of Commissioner, OF
the County Of Ohio, That vote be tsksn
upon the question of appropriation by
such subscription by nsid county Of the
sum Of 100000 to the work above speci-
fed. Such vote shall BIO taken at the Gov.
eral places o! voting in said county at a
1pecial election, which shall be held on
Saturday, the 2Sth day OF January, 1888.
2. II euch vote shall be IN favor OF
such appropriation, any subscription there
| OF by this Board or its agents shall be
upon tho terms and conditions following:
Tho said sum OF 100000 shall be sub.
scribed to the capital stock of the Wheel-
ing q Harrisburg Railway Company OF
West Virginia, and such subscription shall
be payable as follows:
now 1T SHALL De PAID. n
The clause here following in Tho new